Browsed byTag: Halloween

October turns many people’s minds to Halloween, scary stories, psychopaths in masks, demons and ghosts that torment mortals, vampires, and werewolves that feast on human prey. But there are some books that manage to be “haunting” or unsettling without having much to do with the traditional monster stories we think of each October. They aren’t meant to instill the kind of fright that makes you terrified to walk from your bed to the bathroom at 3 a.m., but they definitely deal with ghosts, or something else that haunts you after the pages are closed and you’ve moved on to making dinner or visiting a friend. And this month, I am going to read some of these “haunting” works. …